Doing It at the Dixie Dew

Ruth Moose

ISBN 10: 1250046386 / ISBN 13: 9781250046383

Published by St. Martins Press-3PL May 2014, 2014

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Used, clean condition, dust jacket in good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doing It at the Dixie Dew
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL May 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250046386
• ISBN 13: 9781250046383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • NC and Southern Authors

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Synopsis

Ruth Moose's Doing It at the Dixie Dew is a charming and delightful debut, the winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition

Who says you can't go home again?

When Beth McKenzie returns to her hometown and attempts to turn an old Southern mansion into a bed and breakfast called The Dixie Dew, her first guest is murdered. Three days later a young priest who looks better in tennis whites than cleric black is found strangled in his chapel. The whole town of Littleboro is turned upside down, inside out, and Ossie Delbardo, the town cop whose job heretofore mainly involved controlling football traffic on Friday nights, is not cut out to solve the murders. Beth fears her newly opened B&B is in danger of failing. She's even more worried that she is Ossie's number one suspect. Aided by her friend from high school and trusty handyman, she sets out to discover the truth of the murders.

Littleboro has its share of characters, some of which are helpful and others misleading. There's Crazy Reba who lives in a tree, bathes in any bathtub she finds empty, and Dumpster dives; Verna, the town know-it-all and affectionate owner of Robert Redford, a huge white rabbit; and Miss Tempie Merritt, music teacher and organist who always wears hat, gloves, and lace-trimmed white socks. When Beth herself is attacked, there's no more time for baking muffins and stenciling pineapples on the porch. She's in a race to uncover her neighbors' secrets before her hometown becomes her burial ground.

About the Author

RUTH MOOSE is the 2013 winner of the Minotaur Books/Malice Domestic Competition. She won the PEN Award for Syndicated Fiction, the Robert Ruark Award for the Short Story, and the Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award. She has received 3 Pushcart nominations and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. She's published three collections of short stories and six collections of poetry, and is the author of Doing It at the Dixie Dew. She was on the Creative Writing faculty at UNC Chapel Hill for fifteen years. Moose lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina.